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TomJansen··on Attention is all you have
Was I actually the only kid who liked cleaning up toys and sorting Knex and Lego and stuff?
TomJansen··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
This project is super cool! But the price of the e-ink board is quite steep
TomJansen··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Yeah Covid was awesome, say that to the people who died from it, or who committed suicide because of the lockdown depression
TomJansen··on Asahi Linux on M3
I am wondering how much the spec changes per M-chip iteration? I think that after some iterations, the spec stays the same, no?
TomJansen··on South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones
>substantially cheaper price

why substantially cheaper? Break-even would be fine too, no? And as a plus, lab-grown meat is much more ethical.

I also think that replacing 'cheap' meat like ground beef would already be sufficient and would make a huge impact, there is really no need make it difficult for ourselves and try to replace rib-eye.

TomJansen··on Servus München: Waymo Is Coming to Germany
Iets first try to get inter-European train tickets shall we?
TomJansen··on OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
Do you have any examples of this? I am not sure if I understand what you mean
TomJansen··on DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip
Source?
TomJansen··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
I work in Bioengineering, and I have never ever had a prompt go through Fable's safety filters. So I have never had the pleasure of using it.

Why release a model with such strict filters? It would be more sensible from a buisness perspective if they had sensible filters in place right away.

TomJansen··on US and Iran reach cease fire agreement
Your really put the shill in shilliard
TomJansen··on An AI Hate Wave Is Here
I agree partly with your comment, but I want to add this perspective:

The dot-com era treatened and killed many jobs in banking (bank tellers and such). AI is now doing the same, but now it is threatening the jobs of consultants.

TomJansen··on I accidentally discovered cross-species microbiome colonization in my dog
So the author tried to fix a non-issue of somebody else's dog with human-grade probiotics.

I think that actually there was no issue at all and he just wanted to YOLO it.

And then he only goes to discuss if it was ethical as he didn't ask the dog? What about just not medicating a dog when there is no medical problem? What about consent from the owner? So much more issues with this than what the author discusses.

TomJansen··on Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app
I was actually happily surprised that you can continue without making an account
TomJansen··on Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove
"I was only pretending to be stupid!"
TomJansen··on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
Aren't you afraid to get banned from Cloudflare for using their DNS for streaming media?
TomJansen··on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
I though Cloudflare forbade streaming via their network? Did their ToS change?
TomJansen··on Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?
Health insurance should be rooted in solidarity. It is supposed to be a collective mechanism designed to prevent individuals from financial ruin due to unpredictable medical crises. It is not about hedging individual risk, but about sharing it across society, because health problems can strike anyone regardless of preparation or behavior.
TomJansen··on An NFC movie library for my kids
This is a very cool project, and I like the nostalgic feel of it! However, this project got me thinking:

We are on a forum filled with people working on these super addicting infinite scroll technologies at YouTube, Instagram, maybe even TikTok. At the same time though, this post removing all these addictive technologies has reached the #1 spot on HN (and HN is deliberately made without any of this addicting tech!!)

I think it is time for people to really realize how addicting the tech they are making is, without masking it with words like 'friction' and 'engagement'. And hopefully they will slowly work on making their tech a little bit less addictive.

Before Covid we had some kind of movement like this, but it has sadly dwindled.

TomJansen··on Google releases smart watch for kids
I agree with this 1000%. Kids need to be free and explore things on their own.

Why are we living in a world where we think that kids do not deserve privacy? Or where we think that we cannot trust our children?

TomJansen··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
I don't want to compare life to video games and I think comparing a genocidal dictatorship that ruthlessly suppresses its citizens and occupies foreign lands (Tibet for example) a challenger is a bit of a downplay
TomJansen··on Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood
My optometrist said that this is only proven way to stop the progression of myopia. Sadly, I cannot wear these as I have cylinder
TomJansen··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
My grandma's pretty good with her Android phone, but every month, she calls us totally lost because apps like WhatsApp keep messing with the UI. Why do they have to change the interface so often? Most times, these changes seem pointless and just confuse her.
TomJansen··on Ubuntu 24.04 (and Debian) removed libsystemd from SSH server dependencies
If you requested this 5 years ago every would think you were crazy...

Same as the suckless people. They were right after all.

TomJansen··on Sweden Is a NATO Member
The super strategic island Gotland, for one.
TomJansen··on "Dutch engineer carried out Iranian nuclear sabotage": VK
The AIVD nor the spy did know the specifics of the operation, e.g. that the waterpumps were carrying Stuxnet. Sources in the AIVD said that they felt used by the CIA.

Better source: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/politiek-ontste...

TomJansen··on Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
Hey! I made project like this, but I reverse engineered the API from the Ultimate Guitar android application. I used BurpSuite and Frida to look at all the HTTPS requests that the app made and went on from there
TomJansen··on Parents are teaming up to delay their children's first cell phone
I don't think denying children of phones is a good idea. First, we shield and deny them things enough as it is already (which only makes them less prepared for the real world later in life, a thing we can observe already). Secondly, I think that we should make policies that make (social) media on the internet less addictive, and implement stuff like good internet behavior into our parenting.
TomJansen··on 'Counterfeit people': The danger posed by Meta’s AI celebrity lookalike chatbots
AI safety is just a thing to keep the advertisers happy
TomJansen··on Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?
I use a Casio FX82 on my desk sometimes, for my phone I use the HiPER Calc Pro and on my laptop I have the app SpeedCrunch installed
TomJansen··on Is GPT-4 Worth the Subscription? Here’s What You Should Know
You first need to get access to the API, which is not available to everyone
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